Margaret Lucas—A duel—A perfect family—Love-letters—Opposition by the Queen—Marriage—Six per cent—Raising the wind 174
The Queen shows favour to Newcastle—A regal snub—Henrietta gives Newcastle £2000—He keeps a large stud—His creditors’ tender farewell—Rotterdam—Antwerp—More borrowing—Lady Newcastle sent to England to raise money—Execution of Charles I—Literary tastes of Lady Newcastle—She returns to her husband—The starving man has a large stud—Death of Sir Charles Cavendish—Correspondence of Newcastle—Calls himself Prince 190
The Restoration—Newcastle pawns his wife and returns to England after an exile of sixteen years—Redeems his wife from pawn—His financial affairs as stated by his wife—Chief Justice in Eyre—A stock of tobacco—Symptoms of rebellion—A son’s debts—Created a Duke—Binds a son very tightly—A gentle snub—Marriage negotiations 208
Newcastle poses as a man of letters—His book on Horsemanship—What to do when a horse has a headache—How to sit on a horse—How to reduce a “resty” horse—Bridles—Anatomy—Leaping-horses— Pirouettes and voltes—Learning to ride from a book 226
Newcastle as a playwright and a poet—Grainger’s opinion—Langbaine’s opinion—Walpole’s opinion—Lodge’s opinion—“The Humorous Lovers”—Pepys’s opinion—Newcastle’s other plays—Newcastle as a patron of letters—Hobbes’s letters to Newcastle 236
Literary works of the Duchess—List—Her secretaries—Rapid out-put—Her “conceptions”—Her verse—D’Israeli and Grainger on her works—Her philosophical works—An extract—James Bristow’s difficulty 249
Prologue to the Duchess’s plays—Specimens—Her dress—Pepys—The Royal Society—Grammont and Charles II 262
The Duchess’s religion—Time to stop—Deaths of the Duke and Duchess—A defence of Newcastle—The Duchess—The best feature of her character—Her great capacity for business matters—Walpole again 273
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE _Frontispiece_
THE CASTLE OF THE OGLES. Inherited by Newcastle from his Mother. From his Book on Horsemanship _Facing page_ 4
WELBECK. Double-page Engraving in Newcastle’s Book on Horsemanship ” 24
BOLSOVER CASTLE. From Newcastle’s Book on Horsemanship ” 30
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. From an Engraving by Wm. Holl. After a Painting by Van Dyck ” 72